Picturing Science, Producing Art

by Galison,Peter; Galison,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415919128
• ISBN10: 0415919126
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-06-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors ofPicturing Science, Producing Artoccupy this intermediate zone to analyze both scientific and aesthetic representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to sociology, history and philosophy of science to gender studies, cultural history to the philosophy of mind. Organized in five sites--Styles, The Body, Seeing Wonders, Objectivity/Subjectivity, and Cultures of Vision--their topics extend from Cinquecento theories of female reproduction to the technologies of cloning, from medieval depictions of the stigmata to electrical metaphors for sex, from astronomical drawings to radioencephalography, from Phoenician griffons carved in ivory to factories cast in concrete. The internationally renowned contributors go beyond both science wars and culture wars byexploring substantive links between systems of visual representation and knowledge in science and art. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers, Jonathan Crary, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Simon Schaffer.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Styles

Style as Inclusion, Style as Exclusion

The Affective Properties of Styles: An Inquiry into Analytical Process and the Inscription of Meaning in Art History

Style/Type/Standard: The Production of Technological Resemblance

The Body

Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or, HOw St. Francis Recieved the Stigmata

Lost Knowledge, Bodies of Ignorance, and the Poverty of Taxonomy as Illustrated by the Curious Fate of Flos Pavonis an Abortifacient

The Sex of the Machine: Mechanomorphic Art, New Women, and Francis Picabia's Neurasthenic

Deanimations: Maps and Portraits of Life Itself

Seeing Wonder

Vision and Cognition

Nature by Design

Impressed Images:Reproducing Wonders

Iconography Between the History of Art and the History of Science: Art, Science, and the Case of the Urban

Hieronymus Bosch's World Picture

Objectivity/Subjectivity

Judgment Against Objectivity

Eclectic Subjectivity and the Impossibility of Female Beauty

Visualization and Visibility

Cultures of Vision

The Studio, the Laboratory, and the Vexations of Art

How to Be Iconophilic in Art, Science, and Religion?

On Astronomical Drawing

Attention and Modernity in the Ninteenth Century

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